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Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$3.7MEnvironment$3.2MAnimals$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$945kHuman Services$663kFood & Nutrition$484kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k34 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$70,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
CAMP FOR ALL$250,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$175,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$150,000
CHOCTAWHATCHEE BASIN ALLIANCE$136,500
KIPP TEXAS$125,000
JACKSON WILD$125,000
THE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL$110,000
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
SCENIC WALTON$100,000
ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO$100,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$100,000
NEW STORY$100,000
ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE$91,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $967k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $20k → 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $25k → 5%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $35k → 5%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $89k → 9%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $5k → 13%NEW STORY: $100k → 14%FISH FOR CHANGE: $20k → 12%FREE2LUV INC: $10k → 9%HEROES AND HORSES: $50k → 10%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $25k → 5%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $50k → 9%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%ADVENTURE FOR ALL: $30k → 9%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50k → 16%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $75k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY HOUSTON: $63k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $55k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $50k → 16%MOVING WATERS: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $50k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
NV
WY
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 48 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
88

Total granted

$9.8M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

90%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • KT
    KIPP Texas Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $880k · revenue +681%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $256k · revenue +27%
  • HS
    HOUSTON SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO Animals
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +193%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
3
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
4
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
12
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educated Choices Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 151 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/133
Grantees still filing
85/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $335,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE CHOCTAWHATCHEE BASIN ALLIANCE: $312,500 · OtherNORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $256,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherHOUSTON SOC FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO Animals: $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherTexas Children's Hospital: $400,000 · OtherTexas Children's HospitalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $225,000 · OtherCenter for Humane Technology: $300,000 · Other+55 more: $2,977,430 · Other+55 moreTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL …KIPP Texas Inc: $880,000 · EducationKIPP Texas IncDONORSCHOOSEORG: $300,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $200,000 · EducationThe Brenda & John H Dunca…Baylor College of Medicine: $150,000 · Education+18 more: $863,167 · Education+18 morePARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $350,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDL…SCENIC AMERICA: $280,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC AMERICASCENIC WALTON INC: $249,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC WALTON I…Houston Botanic Garden: $185,000 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic…NOKUSE EDUCATION INC: $131,000 · EnvironmentNOKUSE EDUCATIO…THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT): $100,000 · EnvironmentArboretum San Antonio: $100,000 · EnvironmentHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $85,000 · Environment+18 more: $576,500 · Environment+18 moreCamp For All Foundation: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION LEGACY: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAdventure for All Corporation: $168,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $168,000 · Human ServicesMOVING WATERS: $125,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesNONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $50,000 · Human Services+6 more: $70,000 · Human ServicesALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $341,500 · AnimalsEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $225,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $90,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $50,000 · AnimalsREVIVE & RESTORE: $50,000 · Animals+4 more: $32,900 · AnimalsMenil Foundation Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON WILD: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUP: $75,000 · Arts & CultureBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,055,930Education$3,393,167Environment$2,056,500Youth Development$1,100,000Human Services$971,500Animals$789,400Arts & Culture$740,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp For All Foundation: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $880,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $341,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $335,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $300,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCENIC AMERICA: $280,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetNORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $256,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSCENIC WALTON INC: $249,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $225,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetThe Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston: $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $185,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAdventure for All Corporation: $168,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $168,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetON RIVER TIME: $150,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNOKUSE EDUCATION INC: $131,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMOVING WATERS: $125,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetJACKSON WILD: $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center: $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAINT CONSTANTINE SCHOOL: $110,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCREEN SANITY INC: $105,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT): $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEASHARE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREBOOT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation: $79,150 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH WALTON MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER GROUP: $75,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationMD Anderson FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Houston Endowment IncThe William Stamps Fa…The Powell FoundationStrake FoundationSterling-Turner Found…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX43.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Northwest Florida State College Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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